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The Israeli charity Zichron Menachem is taking 130 children with cancer abroad, with doctors, nurses, psychologists and counsellors, to give them respite from their treatment.

Sunday Olasanmi is one of 16 African doctors learning at Hebrew University to improve the public health of their home countries. In this video Dr Olasanmi tells his story.

Good review of Israel’s growing relationship with the most populous nation.

12 young marine scientists, most of them doctoral students from Israel, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Turkey, Tunisia, Malta, Greece, the UK and Italy have formed the project EcoOcean.

The UN Economics Commission held a special conference in Tel Aviv where UN Under Secretary General Jan Kubis praised Israel’s innovations – especially in technology.

A paint-can design competition is generating funds for innovative projects to prepare at-risk Israeli teens for careers in the graphic arts.

Israel even cleared the area of minefields and spent $2.3 million renovating the famous River Jordan site.

A new video of the IsraAID Conference for Africa features Bob Geldof, Save A Child’s Heart and Israelis for Congo. Humanitarian workers from the Jewish State tell some inspiring stories.

History was made at the Israel Air Force’s graduation ceremony, when the Jewish State’s first religious female pilot received her wings.

It wasn’t the winning that really mattered, but Israelis won 51 medals, including 17 gold, at the 2011 Special Olympics in Athens.